Albany bureaucrats have moved force fully to clobber New Yorkers with rolling blackouts, economic decay and soaring energy prices.

But don’t blame Gov. Paterson’s office: It was already in the dark.

And aspiring — some would say presumptive — governor Andrew Cuomo is scarcely more enlightened.

At the onset of the Easter weekend — i.e., when they thought no one would notice — the eco-apparatchiks at the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied Westchester’s Indian Point nuclear power plant a key permit it needs to operate past 2013.

DEC decreed that it was using too much water from the Hudson River to cool its two reactors, to the detriment of fish eggs and stuff.

Fish eggs?

Forgive us, but we don’t care about fish eggs. We care about people — and jobs.

Fact is, Indian Point produces nearly one-third of the electricity consumed in New York City and Westchester. Without it, the entire metro-area economy goes belly-up.

And without DEC approval, Indian Point’s two reactors can’t secure federal operating license renewals when their current ones expire in 2013 and 2015.

Paterson’s response?

The DEC decision came from “a non-political process” run by “scientists,” a spokesman said. “The [executive chamber] isn’t going to weigh in on science decisions by agencies.”

Not even when the “science decisions” imperil the state’s economy?

Really, doesn’t Paterson understand that his job requires “weighing in on” — indeed, directing — the decisions taken by the executive branch?

And regardless of the “science,” the economic reality is that Indian Point’s 2,000 megawatts of power are indispensable to an electric grid that’s already straining to meet growing demand.

No one seeking to destroy the plant has faced this truth squarely — not Paterson, and certainly not the anti-Indian-Point ringleaders, Attorney General Cuomo and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, both of whom aspire to higher office.

Both merely insist that the loss of Indian Point won’t cause blackouts right away — while acknowledging in vague terms the need to produce more juice to meet future demand. But given the eco-lunacy that’s besieging this plant, what are the chances of ever getting anything else built?

The text of the ruling — which Entergy Nuclear, Indian Point’s owner, has vowed to challenge — provides further cover.

Technically speaking, the agency merely instructs Entergy to replace Indian Point’s current water system with a supposedly more advanced “closed-cycle cooling” one.

Yet such a system requires the construction of massive cooling towers, birthing a new round of construction and environmental permits and giving the anti-juice forces more ways to gum up the works.

Not to mention that hooking up the towers requires the reactors to be shut down for nearly a year.

Maybe Paterson doesn’t care; he’ll be gone by next year anyway.

But Cuomo aspires to the job, and Brodsky to his.

They need to understand that their continuing recklessness regarding Indian Point calls into question their fitness to hold any high office.